As the temperature continues to soar, there can’t be many of us who are banking eight hours of solid sleep. My own bedroom is in the loft, which heats up like an oven at any slight shift in degrees. I’ve tried everything to cool down both myself and the room... but nothing seems to work for longer than 5 minutes. So what should we be doing to keep cool?

Perhaps it’s time to take a tip from the queen of DIY hacks, Stacey Solomon. The Sort Your Life Out presenter can usually be found organising people’s homes on TV or letting us in on her behind-the-scenes life with husband Joe Swash and five children in her hit series Stacey & Joe. But she also has several ingenius tricks for cooling down in the heatwave.

‘I put my pillowcase in the freezer for 20 minutes before bed. There’s nothing better than a cold pillow,’ she said on Instagram. And she also had this tip for parents: ‘I’m filling the boys’ water bottles halfway, leaving them on their sides in the freezer so they’ll have ice-cold water for school.’

That’s not all. Stacey shared a parenting hack to help keep the whole family cool, revealing that she keeps a packet of baby wipes in the freezer to keep them chilled for days out. ‘The frozen wipes are like a cool pack I use to wipe myself down in this heat, too,’ she says.

And there’s one final step, which Stacey revealed back in 2020, that helps her cool down before bed... Revealing her top hack to help herself drift off, Stacey explained: ‘Going to carry [the children] to bed and then have a nice cool bath.’ On Instagram, Stacey shared a picture of her chilled bubble bath (complete with flowers, candles and drink) to help her relax.